ASTS Course #1 | Mood of Studying Scriptures| HG Gauranga Darshan Das

so we'll begin so we have four sessions

today two tomorrow two

so I'll cover the mode of studying

scriptures this morning

and method of studying scriptures in the

second session today then tomorrow

morning

mode of teaching scriptures and later

method of teaching scriptures so total

four sessions

and

their first session is supposed to be

importance of scriptures the

significance of studying scriptures but

I don't think it's needed for this

beautiful Sangha devotees so I am not

going to cover that and there is one

more also Act of learning shlokas if you

find that interesting and if you want to

cover that also then we'll somehow make

some time for that they are interested

how many are interested in that act of

Blackness oh my God we will try to cover

that also some tips

and

I'll speak less and you also get to

contribute your understanding and maybe

any questions and discussion points I'll

be happy

so let's begin

first mode of studying scriptures by the

way how many of you have attended this

course of after studying and teaching

scriptures online till now

okay not so many foreign

so there are five potent forms of bhakti

as you know when is sadhu Sangha

associating with devotees next is

chanting the holy names of the Lord then

bhagavat is

worship these are the five potent forms

of bhakti Rupa goswami has given

64 limbs of bhakti and at the end he I

highlighted five of them foreign

so interestingly this cream of all

scriptures

describes the importance of

other limbs of bhakti also other

potentials

so now let me begin with the statement

reading scriptures or studying

scriptures is not just an exercise of

intelligence but an experience of heart

if only we have that mood

so when we are sincerely studying sastra

or healing sastra

I am going to mix both

hearing and studying

so this is art of learning shastra you

can say the mood of learning shastra I'm

going to mix both basically both both

cases whether we are hearing or whether

we are reading or studying we are

basically learning scripture right so

the mood of learning scripture is what

we are going to study now which we will

discuss in the next one so reading

scriptures is not just a excesses of

intelligence but an experience of the

heart

so how is it so let's see if we read the

scripture in the right mood then that

mood will

help us derive that nourishment from

this whole exercise of study when we are

not studying in the right mood we will

not get the right kind of nourishment

just like you see there is

medicine given by the doctor say

ayurvedic medicine

the doctor will say that this should be

their regular

regulated lifestyle and this should be

your diet if you don't follow the diet

if you don't follow the lifestyle the

effective medicine may not have the

effect

okay right kind of effect sometimes they

say okay take this medicine after

not before food sometimes they say take

this medicine before food not after food

so along with

the activity of taking medicine we

should also understand that there should

be support to Lifestyle along with

taking medicine then only the medicine

will work favorable circumstance should

be there similarly before understanding

the methods of studying sastra tips for

studying tips for learning slokas this

and that we should also understand the

mood behind doing all this what should

be our spirit of steady in Shasta okay

so ultimately sastrich study is meant to

transform our heart

it's meant to introduce our service

attitude and rejuvenate our love for

Krishna and bring a good character in US

and not just some information

so we are not looking for information

from the scriptures we are looking for a

transformation through scriptural study

there should be transformation of Heart

transformational character

and ultimately love of God respectful

dealings with other vaishnavas so these

are the outcomes of shastric study

scholarship is a small probably an

insignificant byproduct of shastra study

the main product is heart transformation

Okay so

now

our scriptural study shouldn't be

intellectual or theoretical instead it

should Inspire our appreciation for God

and develop love for him

equipped with the right mood we will

find scriptural study soften our hearts

and transform our character which in

turn increases the relish cohesion of

our assessment study when we are reading

it's not an academic exercise it's not a

scholarly exercise it is a meditation on

the qualities of Krishna it's a

meditation

we will be able to meditate like the

devotional meditation provided we have

the right mode is more important and one

more important outcome of study should

be uh is like my personal understanding

and and opinion

we should bring in all our understanding

of sastra basically our appreciation for

krishna's

in our private conversations with

devotions

so in vrindavan even a casual

conversation between two brothers

even gossip in whatever is right the

gopis are coming together and gossiping

about something what is the gossip the

subject matter of their gossip is how

Krishna came and he had stolen butter in

their homes this is right so even

gossiping they have a casual personal

conversation between two average viruses

is the Glorious the qualities of Krishna

so this is how we should convert our

interactions with other devotees into

Krishna conscious conversations

I would say this is one of the most

effective outcomes of sincere sashtag

study okay when two ways devotee Spirit

together they may discuss 100 different

things definitely service is one agenda

which is important which is required

very good nourishing but apart from

service related discussions if we can

also discuss the qualities of Krishna

your appreciation for Krishna so that

will nourish our relationships so I

would also see that shastric study pays

way for building our vaishnava

friendships vaishnava relationships also

right so let me tell you one

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is very important you know what is that

foreign

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foreign

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foreign

so when he studied with them under the

guidance of yesterday when he has heard

she was

mind became completely observed in the

qualities

then he became very dear to all the

devotees

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also

so by studying

the outcome in his life is he became

dear to devotees devotees became dear to

him

the loving bondings friendship affection

between vaishnavas will increase when we

read when we study the sastra so one of

the important outcomes of shastra study

is

appreciation for other devotees for

their appreciation towards Krishna

you love you registered in shastra you

studied sastra and you are sharing your

understanding and appreciation of

Krishna with other devotee and he shared

his understanding with you so thus you

develop appreciation for each other

and mutually you develop your

appreciation for Krishna so you're

growing in your love for Krishna they

are also growing in your loving bonding

with each other that is the outcome of

shastra study makes sense does it make

sense okay so we are trying to aim for

this apart from any other things

so understanding of the scriptures is

proportional to the attitude with which

they are studied so when we study them

with the right attitude naturally we

will get the right outcome

so

now

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with that Prelude let me get into the

topic

so our understanding of sastra is not

just a product of our study only

I read bhagavatam I understand

bhagavad-gita I read he's so conscious I

understand this opens yes reading is

important studying is important

systematic study is important but apart

from studying sastra apart from Swan

spiritual culture is very very essential

for us to understand Shasta okay what is

spiritual culture spiritual culture has

five aspects

that's right here let's see

five experts five assists

right so sadhana

I mean there's an overlap amongst all

these cases

but these are all practical purposes

let's try to separate them foreign

are not as products of our sitting in

one corner a table with some table lamp

and City

That's essential that's required but

being in a part of spiritual culture is

also needed I met so many devotees who

may not be very well reading scriptures

in an external sense but because they

have been a pattern since vibrant

spiritual culture they have spent you

know decades years and decades uh like

being in the back of spiritual culture

being that sadhana and Ashley when

they're chanting nicely doing their

services nicely and hearing bhagavatam

nicely although they are not well read

from an external sense

they are mature

they're more devotional they have more

love for Krishna and they have more

commitment to the path of bhakti their

decision making is very refined their

dealings are very refined you can see

such such quality in the attitude of a

devotee in the personality of a devotee

because of being part of spiritual

culture so sastra understanding is not

just a product of our systematic study

of shastra it's also a product of our

sadhana by chanting the holy names of

Krishna nicely you understand bhagavata

by entering services to devotees and

getting their blessings you understand

bhagavatham nicely

by having good culture and good behavior

with other devotees you understand isn't

it so bhagavatam understanding your Gita

understanding is not just a product of

our study alone it is also product of

our sadachar our Sangha our Seva our

sadhana

right because when we celebration on us

we get blessings from vaishnavas and the

blessings will enable us to understand

the sastra better

not just sufficient

understanding is not just a product of

intelligence only intelligence is

required to some degree but intelligence

has a limited role to play blessings are

a greater role to play

Services they have a great role to play

sadhana sadachar they have great role to

play so we cannot restrict our

understanding of sastra only to study of

sastra

you know again when I'm in my college

it is when classmate once I went to this

room

and I asked him

I read 13 14 times you know

God

I didn't even Advance at that time I was

32 so I just 50 years back I just asked

him and he said 13 14 times but why do

you why are you in Bemus you know the

Bemis in college there's EMS and BMS EMS

is vegetarian Ms demons is

non-vegetarians why do you eat flesh

where is where do you watch all kinds of

movies why do you speak of it the four

languages

okay okay so he said yeah this is this

person philosophical understanding just

to get a perspective in life just to not

even perspective just some information

additional information so that in my

conversations with people I can say I

know this also that's all nothing to

follow nothing to apply nothing to

transform yourself so we have people who

are scholarly in understanding of Gita

but hardly applied the teachings of Gita

but on the other hand people may not be

well read in the scriptures but they are

following spiritual cultures therefore

spiritual spiritual culture is important

just sitting with some books in a

secluded room is not sufficient for a

deep assimilation of sastra

following spiritual culture is

Association so intelligence detention

from spiritual culture is just like

Speedy trained without solid cracks

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railway station

and there are some but that Stones

below the tracks but here it's like that

so without tracks the trade cannot run

right similarly without the tracks of

spiritual culture our our scripture that

cannot run Okay so

let's discuss the qualities of a good

student of scriptures so here is the

main course okay starters are over we

are getting the main course and digit

will serve later

request

devotion versus intelligence eagerness

there's a sense of urgency we'll go

through all these 10 points one by one

you don't have to note down all the ten

points so I am going to go through them

one by one first is devotion versus

intelligence

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but Shiva said this is

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foreign

could not understand his own sweetness

so he desired to take the position of

brother running to experience his own

sweetness so only by bhakti you can

understand so devotion is more important

than intelligence right so

he said buddhi intelligence is not

sufficient to understand

different different commentaries okay to

understand this let me read so many

teachers yes

you did so many commentaries that's fine

but but

is important

movement

an educated person so I cannot read

properly but still I am trying to read

because my Guru told me to read first

point

he said whenever you open the pictures

of bhagavad-gita I only remembered

Krishna playing the role of a chariot

driver how much Krishna loves his

devotee that he takes the menial rule of

a driver of his devotee

so remembering this quality of Krishna

remember this

tears automatically come from my eyes

to Second point

first he has submissiveness to Guru

second he has a love for Krishna

mahaprabhu the speaker of bhagavad-gita

in his past life he said that

whatever you understood from

bhagavad-gita is the essence it is

and he's saying this to whom the person

who never read bhagavad-gita completely

person who is an illiterate person

an illiterate person who is even unable

to pronounce the spokes of Gita is fully

equipped with the essence of

bhagavad-gita conclusion of

bhagavad-gita and whatever he understood

not whatever another illiterate person

another scholarly person understood this

elected person whatever he understands

what does that mean he has devotion for

Krishna and he has circus investigates

Guru if you don't have submissiveness

towards Guru if you don't love Krishna

what's the point of reading enter Gita

that's the first qualification

okay but now you may have a question I

don't have bhakti which I will not

understand I will not understand

bhagavatam with the bhakti then you'll

understand it better

multiple times right the more we read

the more our devotion will increase and

our absorption sastra will increase and

our understanding question will increase

Krishna

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today

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your love for Krishna will be developed

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second quality of a student is a sense

of urgency First Quality is devotion not

so much intelligence more than

intelligence many devotions as the first

point second is a sense of urgency and

eagerness

so eagerness is the key for the Treasure

House of

scriptural understanding okay a sense of

urgency you want spiritual wisdom then

you take the key of eagerness a sense of

urgency and then open the treasure box

of scriptural wisdom

so we digest food to the degree we are

eager so if we digested to the degree we

are hungry for food if there is no anger

even if you eat so much you cannot

digest it similarly if there is no

eagerness even if you study a lot even

if we hear a lot we cannot understand

simple

dietitian is proportional to hunger

similarly digestion of Shasta is

proportional to proportional to

eagerness in hearing or studying

disaster okay so all the stages of

famous sharing are very eager

they're very eager to hear so that's

their qualification

foreign

with great sense of urgency so that made

him a bona fide recipient of bhagavatam

wisdom so when we when we hear Harry

Katha where we study sastra with a sense

of

sense with a sense of eagerness that we

accelerated better

next

third

third quality is character and dealings

so uh let's discuss these fish Locas in

relation to character and dealings

we understand the scriptures to the

degree our dealings our Behavior our

character is pure

let's discuss

ion

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in this way

what is the phrase

we have understood all the puranas and

scriptures because number one you are

another you are seedless

right calling out for regretical

instruments he's seamless second he is

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studied them nicely

explained them also because you are

sinless because you studied nicely they

have also

explained those scriptures to others you

are akhyatani therefore you are a

qualified speaker of bhagavatam three

qualities

well studied and good at speaking and

sickness but these are external

qualifications

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you know

all the confidential portions of the

scriptures because you have two

qualities earlier they mentioned three

qualities their external qualifications

speaker and also being seamless and

external qualifications but here they

are highlighting the internal

qualifications what are they

Salvia and snigdha you are very pure at

hand your character is spotless second

is you are very respectful and

affectionate towards your elders right

so these two are most important

qualifications just by being sinless and

having some expertise and reading and

speaking are not sufficient to

understand sastra

we should also be respectful to gurus we

should be having affection to vaishnavas

and we should have a pure heart that

means no Envy no pride no duplicity no

hypocrisy then we understand okay so

character and dealings are important to

understand the sastra so three

qualifications we discussed right what

is the first one

second

essence of urgency third

character feelings then yeah good

character is more important than skill

set cultivating ability patience

compassion gratitude so they are more

important

huh because by having such character and

dealings we develop we get blessings

when we get blessings we understand

shastra better fourth is gratitude

shastra must be studied with a great

keyboard let us be grateful to read the

sastra let us not think that it is my

authority to read sastra I am a Bonafide

candidate to read sastra of course if I

wrote it of course it's our

responsibility today if we go to Google

it in the sense of responsibility we

should read but not in the sense of uh

what is an entitlement

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we should be grateful to them so it's

the attitude of gratitude that attracts

the attention of Krishna more than our

knowledge more than our scholarship more

than our academic capabilities right so

we should be grateful to receive an

opportunity to read bhagavatham so

proper had spent sleepless nights to

read write these books

let me speak let me read them at least

right so we should be grateful to

prabhupada we should be grateful to all

the guru Varga and acharyas for giving

us this wealth of knowledge wealth of

scriptures okay so let's gratitude have

given commentaries yesterday has put all

these books into writing and he has

appointed his disciples okay you divide

this Vedas into sections and subsections

and propagate in your communities so

like that so many sages have written so

many commentaries

have given their wonderful explanations

to all the scriptures for us to

understand the scriptures we should be

grateful to them right so when we

gratefully read when we gratefully study

sastra we understand them better make

sense

then fifth quality is humility and faith

if you have faith in krishna's words

when there is a person and there is no

faith in the sastra we cannot understand

shastra if you constantly doubt the

shastra we cannot understand and we have

our own preconceived notions this is how

things are supposed to be even if

somebody is saying something sensible

you will not go in because already

playing this food just like when you try

to pour will connect up there's a cup

you try to pour milk in it already there

is water in it what will happen to the

milk it will just over

similarly when there is no humility in

US

okay and our Act is our mind is filled

with so many other preconceived notions

and concoctions even if pure shastra

college is being poured into our minds

and hearts they will not be able to

contain it all the knowledge will just

overflow because there is no humility to

receive it and humidity is the space

inside okay it is placed inside right

when you pour it it will contain it the

humidity is there but it's the humidity

that is fried there are so many other

concoctions and different types of

intellectual conceptions

which are inspired by materialistic

doctrines atheistic doctrines so when

they are there we cannot assume that

sastra right so our minds are filled

with filled with prejudices we cannot

instill faith in the pure knowledge of

shastra so there is no

will not get done with Nano so

sixth quality is to be non-anyvious

ly

arms

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I am going to reveal This Confidential

knowledge of bhakti yoga to you because

you have absolutely no Envy

so not envy is a qualification to

understand bhagavad-gita

because Arjuna is not hilarious of

Krishna he was able to understand the

knowledge of bhagavad-gita similarly if

you are not envious we can understand

bhagavad-gita then what is the

qualification to understand same thing

is

foreign

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better

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right so this is the goal and this is

the means also

what is the goal of chanting Hare

Krishna to purify our heart and after

purifying your heart you will keep the

beat by yourself

what is the result of scientific more

chanting right what is the result of

scientific States you you become

purified of your heart with a pure hand

you start sending

to celebrate it

we cannot understand

with our material senses that's clear

then what's the point of trying to

understand point of trying to serve

Krishna but the next part of the slogans

is

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very material senses in Krishna service

Krishna will be pleased to reveal

himself to you

without material senses we cannot

approach Krishna but we can always use

this material senses to serve Krishna so

that Krishna is pleased to reveal

himself

so we may say that oh my chanting is

methodical my service is mechanical I am

just more on physical service I don't

have so much of heartfelt feelings and

emotions for the Lord what's the point

of leave that service when devotee said

but if I chat I will find attentively

with the tears in my eyes

what's the point of chanting and we

cannot get tears from day one by the way

is

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means to engage our senses bodily senses

and Krishna Seva

to

develop

to invoke bhara for Krishna

means bhava is a result of

emotions for Krishna is a result of

practicing bhakti with our senses

we may not have so many emotions for

Krishna so much love for Krishna it will

not be possible we have some little

feelings little bit some sentiments we

have some intellectual conviction you

have but you don't have so much emotions

we don't have so many emotions like

radharani and other gopis or gopas have

we we are not having spontaneous fears

of love and affection for a Krishna we

are chanting her when we are serving him

but we do it as a practice mind may be

thinking of 10 different things but

still let the senses behind this in

krishna's service one day mind will

develop that emotions right so bharava

is a result of

little bit but understand that's that

will come as a result of our sensual

practice at this moment our connection

with Krishna is more through senses more

than mind more than intelligence right

but that will that status will come

emotional connection emotional bonding

with Krishna will come uh sooner or

later right

so coming back to this point when we are

not envious then we can understand

better

then seventh quality is service attitude

and service is more important

like

um

there is one shloka from the Third Kind

of

asked several questions about Jiva is

answered all those questions

I am very happy I am very grateful to

you for revealing me this one now I

understand it

intellectually

my understanding is born in a

theoretical plane now

this theoretical understanding will

become a realization

when I render service to Pure devotees

like you

service is that circuit

that converts the input of theoretical

understanding into the output of

practical realization

at this moment when you are reading

sastra you may collect points right

students read so much and they gathered

files they gather a lot of information

they get rather a lot of knowledge and

the knowledge is stored in the different

files in their memory

but we will be able to apply that in

life we will be able to realize that

only when we render service so when we

are serving with other vaishnavas that

service will give us sufficient

opportunity to apply our knowledge apply

what we have learned in justific study

in the classroom session the physics

teacher will give so many formulas or

chemistry teacher will give so many

formulas like C plus o2s you go to

whatever I forgot to learn now okay so

you you mix this chemical with that

chemical you will get this chemical so

you'll get lot of knowledge but once you

go to the lab and start using your hands

and legs and eyes to mix the elements

then you will get greater realization

okay gravitational force whatever 9.8

system right people will adjust the

scores accordingly

become 10.3 so they will get 29.2 so

they'll just try to adjust the scores

like that so when you are practically

serving with devotees in the association

of vaishnavas then we get to understand

how much I have understood

foreign

but practically when we're dealing with

other devotees how much bodily

conception we have we will realize it

okay but we read

we hear all the qualities of devotees

from

second chapter of bhagavad-gita

qualities then fifth chapter

bhagavad-gita the qualities

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different aspects of knowledge 16th

chapter of bhagavad-gita 26 qualities

there are lists of qualities throughout

bhagavad-gita we hear them we read them

we study them we memorize them we

repurchase them in exams we get bhakti

shastri certificates

when we start serving with vaishnava as

we understand how much

is

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flesh like uh like weed eaters do but if

you are speaking harsh words that cause

pain to other devotees that is himself

right so agitating speech so

interactions with devotees especially

rendering service with devotees is the

real test for our understanding of

sastra and it's a real opportunity where

assimilating and realizing and absorbing

and internalizing sastra makes sense

right so now let's see Jiva gospel

so Jiva gospel is a great scholar

great scholar is a very small word to

describe the scholarship right he has

written four lakh original slokas such a

talented person

you know how he would write in those

days people would write on Palm leaves

okay you would pick up only take ink and

then write page number one and keep it

there for a dry ink has to die right

meanwhile he'll pick up another leap

right to his number three there

whatever he has to write in page number

two is already there in his mind

typing

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earlier at least we still use pen and

paper I know if I don't try it properly

I lose paper but now typing only okay

you can just rearrange when you are

writing a paper you write introduction

oh no it's good in

conclusion a great conclusion it's good

and Abstract red body you realize the

contents all that opportunities

so much processing here right page

number one keep it from drying keep head

page number three keep it bright then

hit pick up page number one by this time

it is right he will turn it back and

right to his number two

um such a great scholarship goswami you

know what was he doing in the beginning

of his life he was an assistant humble

menial servant of propagos

he would collect Palm leaves process

them cut them he would collect ink and

he would make some

brushes which span to write so this is

the medial service that anyone can do

subjugated anyone can do washing your

vessels anyone can do right prasadams

anyone can do so when we are not

hesitant to perform services that

doesn't need specialization okay and

that is stability right humility means

to be willing to there are many

definitions of humility one aspect of

humility is to be willing to do any

medium service without any

identification

of oneself with our designations

positions talents specializations and

scholarship right keeping aside all my

specialties designations Etc and I just

do some menial service that anyone can

do that doesn't require any special

skill that is stability

foreign

equipped him with so many blessings that

he became a transcendental author

so we should not think that I should be

doing only privileged activities you

should be willing to perform some

background menial Services also right

yes we should not waste time but but

doing some humble medial service is not

a waste of time

in fact that is the best way of

investing your time in something

productive

do not spend time we should invest you

understand time is the greatest wealth

okay money more than more valuable than

to others so let's not waste it let's

not spend it let's invest it in Humble

service medial service

is doing that

and the greatest wealth that we can

acquire is ability and with that

humility we will be able to change the

holy names of Krishna and that's Essence

so mode of approaching Guru is

President Shiva mode of surrender and

relevant inquiries and service

foreign

that's a general trend of acquiring

knowledge right ask questions get

knowledge that's education yeah but ask

questions in the mode of submissive

we need to respect vaishnavas we need to

respect guru's respect teachers without

that whatever knowledge we have is is

not dejection and with respect you ask

questions but after that you also try to

serve them rendering service to them is

also very very important so that the

whole circuit will become complete just

asking questions gathering information

your knowledge is remains theoretically

but if that asking questions is done

with the vote of submissiveness and

respect and gratitude and it is followed

by rendering service to devotees then

the whole circuit will become completed

then our knowledge will become complete

so our Nana should become big dad

our Nana when it is

foreign

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foreign

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right so that's one

next quality I mentioned all this

so eighth quality

is nourishment versus remembrance many

times we hear devotee saying that I read

so much I do not remember what's the

point of reading

Okay so

generally

at an average condition Soul wants a

sense of accomplishment achievement I

have to achieve this I need to

accomplish this that mode of

accomplishment is there so when you

invest one or two hours in reading

something at the end of one October you

don't remember anything

foreign

but

it's not that we study only to remember

things

uh like there is Feast

ornamidi elaborate history

we eat but how many of us remember the

meaning of what we eat right one week

back we must have had a big Feast do you

remember the medal

are one month back we have taken darshan

of the deities

but they were not exactly remember the

color of the garland that they're

wearing we may not remember the color of

their dress you may not remember exactly

what are the arguments even those who

have dressed in the deities they will

forget till they offer this earring okay

did you offer this did you offer these

battles not to rather any they don't

remember okay so we may do the service

when we forget

but because we ate something

we are still alive

something I don't remember the last 10

days menu but I because I ate last 10

days that I am surveying now I'm living

now right so similarly in our sastric

study

memory and recall are very small

elements

so the purpose are the or the goal of

reading sastra is not to remember sastra

to realize just

knowingly or annoyingly when you hear a

hear sastra and

reach sastra did some kind of

transformation that is happening within

humanoid perceived Moment by moment but

they are they are getting transformative

that that food is nourishing the soul

although we don't remember what we are

reading but still that reading that

hearing that studying is nourishing our

soul is bringing some transformation in

the heart subtly right which we will be

able to pursue our period of time oh two

years back I used to be very angry

now my anger reduced wow or three years

back I used to be really ambitious by

this material enjoyment that kind of

mental enjoyment the SE three years yeah

I think my anchoring for that material

positions and possessions has a reduced

significantly right three years back I

did not have much etiquette with people

but now looks like my dealings are

getting better so like that we can

perceive that transformation that is

happening certainly within us over a

period of time

right now for example just how many of

you had this experience

10 years

10 years back or five years you read one

sloka that purpose

and now after five years you're reading

it again

in this five years you have never read

it

you never read it but after five years

you are opening it again and five years

back we had some kind of understanding

of that sloka now after five years

although you have not reviseded it even

once

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same shloka same word same book same

person

what made the difference and Improvement

in understanding that is in this five

years we chanted five into 365 into 16

rounds of Correction

in this five years we attended so many

festivals we went for so many actors we

served so many devotees we received so

many blessings of all this added to my

understanding of that one shloka all the

I never saw the stroke in the last five

years

right so like certainly the lot of

transformation is happening

right and in these five years I have

heard so many classes classes all these

are directly or indirectly are are

contributing to my understanding of that

I mean not even get a logical sequence

of how did I understand this I may not

remember the historical history of

developing this understanding but

certainly it's happened bhagavatam has

its role to play that bhakti has its

role as its role to beautify our hands

to make us more and more mature so

remembrance is

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advancement is happening right by

studying sastra so remembrance is not

that great one more thing is

ninth point is seek the essence we are

meant to be not bharavahis let us say

the difference between

means Essence Seeker you seek Essence in

your sahastra study

means one who carries let us not try to

become birthday carriers

we should become Essence Seekers

so let's not carry the burden of so many

scriptures

okay so many books so many statements so

many slokas so many philosophical

Concepts so how much Nana no

transformation

right so once there is

studied so many scriptures

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your mind will become confused

right you can't figure out what is

so better read some essential

right that is most beneficial that is

recommended by the acharyas and then you

mold your light So In The Name Of

shastric Studies sometimes we try to

accumulate so much of information

and we confuse ourselves we miss a small

point that even change children can

figure out

right so analysis paralysis by analysis

when we have so much information so much

data to process all the data we need

more intelligence and we get caught up

in the NRS and we missed excess

right so when we are studying shastra we

are meant to see this is now in the

fifth kind of algorithm is there he is

just working like an avadhut foreign

[Laughter]

[Laughter]

right so what happened to the deer

because Bharat Maharaja he became so

attached to the deer he's a pure devotee

what happened to the deal we only

discussed that we committee about after

the previous year

having expanded someday some other

scripture I have heard also some

reference but but what is the essential

point that Prophet is making in the

upper ports

right don't get distracted in bhakti

Maya can attack us at any point Bharat

went to bhava States even there also

Maya attacked him

Etc

what he had he had compassion Maya

attacked through compassion sometimes

Maya May attack us through our good

qualities also we may not have any bad

qualities but may I can attack us

through our good qualities only

sometimes when we get more uh deviated

with compassion more than passion in the

name of showing compassion and common

people when we get so distracted from

bhakti also great

so like that we need to see the

essential message from that episode from

that sloka more than getting caught up

in the grammatical analysis there's a

lot of grammar there so much of

linguistic analysis grammatical analysis

so people we try to see scripture from

historical perspective grammatical

perspective linguistic perspective then

analytical perspective or philosophical

perspective they miss the main

devotional perspective right scripture

so we need to be essential Seekers and

not burdened carriers

essentially sick decisions while

eradicating excitement for extrovertence

so that's the statement

finally the journey from knowledge to

realization is application

we come to a stage of having knowledge

of scriptures to having the realization

of the scriptures by sincerely

attempting to apply the knowledge of

scriptures in life

yes we read bhagavad-gita Krishna spoke

about so many qualities

so let's try to apply that knowledge in

life then that will convert to the

realization let's not stop at developing

knowledge of sastra only let's get into

realizing the sastra by applying it in

our own

style in the sense we need to take the

baby steps to apply the teachings of

sastra so that all that knowledge will

come up into realization okay

so now shastrix what's the time now can

you please tell me 11 45 okay

so just translate two people

so if they are regularly waiting on a

regular basis they're having some

conversation okay good friends

then there is a subject matter for them

to discuss

but if I meet my friend after three

years or four years there's not much to

discuss there right

and one more point

if my friend sees some malicious

intentions in me some kind of bad

motives in me he will not be comfortable

to reveal his heart to visit it do you

reveal her to a person or they are

closely interacting with that person do

you Reveal Your Heart to that person if

you find some kind of bad motivational

person naturally no right

same is the case with sastra bhagavatam

or bhagavad-gita they are not just mere

books they're persons

so he would not be comfortable to reveal

all his inner secrets

to a reader who is seeing the book once

in a way I read one chapter today and

after four months I will read the second

chapter by the time if I get the first

chapter right again you begin the first

chapter okay so if our frequency of

interaction with bhagavatam

are sastra is very less Sanskrit is not

how much to live interests second if our

motives in studying sastra are not pure

then also sastra will not reveal all the

confidential secrets to us

so your friend will reveal his sad to

you

to the degree they find a good frequency

interaction and good motives in

interaction right so purity of

interaction and frequency of interaction

are important so understanding the heart

of a person similarly when we have

regular sastric study habit then the

shastra is there to reveal many more

things to us right on the regular basis

secondly we have pure we should have

pure intent let me read the sastra not

to become a scholar not to become an

academician not to become popular name

fame money Prestige gaining all these

things should not be the motive of

steadying Shasta the motive of studying

sastra is to develop genuine inspiration

to practice bhakti to Transformers

character the body of studying sastra is

to develop the service attitude okay to

to get inspiration from all the

personalities of bhagavatam like kunti

Maharani

um

[Laughter]

I should just try to equip myself with

all the lessons that these the

activities of this personalities are

revealing to me so when that is my

motive in Reading sastra then shastra

has unlimited content to really

unlimited realization to bestow upon you

right so

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is compared to a land

what is that sloka

yes

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completely stimulated and internalized

it is

it will illuminate the heart with

spiritual wisdom right that's why

algorithm is compared to land

so if you lit a lamp in a dark room the

room is filled with

light

similarly if you let the lamp of

bhagavata in your heart it will destroy

the ignorance it's like land distressed

Darkness second bhagavatam is also

compared to your son Unity lamp in one

corner of a room that will not

deliberate the entire universe

sun has to raise then

the darkness of the entire hemisphere

will be removed so similarly at an

individual level bhagavatam acts like a

lamp that distracts the darkness of

ignorance

in the heart

at a global level at higher level

bhagavadamatics like sun that describes

the misconceptions of the society

is a tasty fruit also that reveals the

sweetness of Krishna sweet qualities of

Krishna finally it is the main

comparison that I wanted to mention in

this context bhagavatam is

foreign

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foreign

I want to become a great scholar I want

to be identified as a great researcher

and academician I want to be seen as a

knowledgeable person in the society if

these are the motives in which we are

reading

will withdraw all the inner beings will

not reveal all that okay so algorithm is

person

understands our mood so whether it's

right mood and then there is right

understanding

so material books you can understand by

research and material intelligence but

spiritual wisdom is acquired more by

Revelation than research okay so I got

them understanding is revealed to us

when we study bhagavatham the right mood

appropriate mode as we discussed 10

points we discussed right

so yeah

and we have example of station kashmiri

uh Kashmir had so much knowledge but he

has so much pride

as I said something back

then

with

me

so

next

those who overly identify themselves to

be great Scholars

can become victims of two hideous

qualities number one Pride number two

Hindi

when you overly identify yourself as a

great scholar of scripture then you know

what happens if someone else presents a

better understanding of the scripture if

he'll envious with that person

when someone does not have as much

understanding as we have

on the scripture we feel proud

there is sense of superiority comes

to come

is not meant to induce superiority

complex or inferiority complex Pride or

Envy within us

is meant to

eradicate enemy within us and Inspire

humility within us

and that will happen only when we read

bhagavatam in the right mode and 10

aspects of our mode of studying the

scriptures we have discussed already

today

so scholarship is based on an

intellectual play but lawful Krishna is

based on spiritual belief so the result

of sastrich study is not scholarship it

is love it is supposed to be love then

this this scripture will act like

medicine that will completely eradicate

our material disease

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illusion

so he even has devotees sometimes you

may have a lot of hankering fire

material enjoyment Comforts lean flame

Prestige and Facilities

honor respect so

devotees sometimes we may tell that

right when we are not sufficiently

purified at hand but hearing the

scriptures on a daily basis studying the

scriptures on a regular basis will

destroy the illusion

um

foreign

so all the enemies are the Demons of

enuist Pride greed they will be in

distress when we take this medicine

right when there is a virus Within

doctor will give a medicine to kill the

virus inside similarly we have viruses

of plus any Pride agreed within so to

kill those viruses we need to take the

ocean of shastra of bhagavad-gita

through ear holes

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in all the three words there is no like

this it is

this medicine will act like sanjivani

sanjivani means

that which induces life and

means it induces life again

so the uh Mantra and this sastra will

act like

that will induce life so real life is

when we engage our senses in krishna's

service then we are said to be living

otherwise we are not set to be living

whose realization is this

you know what did he say

S as soon as the Lord appeared in front

of him offered this prayer he said

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he said my dear Lord my senses are

sleeping

but you have awaken your senses

by his senses are sleeping he's doing so

many things before meeting Narada before

receiving the Lord also but as long as

the material senses are acting on a

material plane they are said to be

sleepy but as soon as we Engage The

material senses in krishna's Seva they

are said to be awakened during the wake

up Street that is called real sanjivani

bringing up to life okay they're

sleeping at their dead senses that are

engaged in Sans gratification on a

material plane are dead senses but

senses that are utilized very severe

purpose of pleasing the master of senses

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when we engage our senses and Krishna

Seva then that's have to be living

senses right by hearing by studying

sastra by healing sastra only we got

that inspiration to engage our senses in

krishna's Seva right then

the greatest auspiciousness for all

devotees is caused by

sastra by the medicine of

bhagavata then

all the fears of federal existence are

described then finally

it will cause you greatest

auspiciousness

as recalled in the sastras right the

Supreme to the mind also to Christian

so if you read shastra in the right mood

you will definitely derive all these

benefits and we have discussed 10

aspects of the mode of studying sastra

so

I conclude here any questions or

comments

questions yesterday do you have a mic

we have a mic but it's not a roaming

microphone it's wired they're not much

noise you can speak louder

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thank you

all these sessions are there

to cultivate that eagerness

okay so to cultivate that eagerness only

devotees are organizing successions of

importance of national studies

and also we can cultivate eagerness by

seeing devotees for eager

to hear sastra many devotees are very

very eager seeing them I get very

enthused oh my God this devotee has so

much taste seeing them will also get

eagerness secondly when we hear the

stories of great devotees like parikshit

Maharaja his eagerness

his eagerness

eagerness to hear from

and

the

Demonic the children of demons

what we were discussing so their

eagerness will inspire us

as for a sense of urgency is concerned

basically Krishna says in bhagavad-gita

is

okay

so it's required for a spiritual Seeker

or a devotee to

perceive birth death goldage and disease

as dukkha as source of distresses

but his great distressful

event also we have forgotten the

experience of taking birth but no child

will come out of mother's womb smiling

dog is crying so much blood and all over

the body and then so much of pain mother

is

experiencing pain child is also

experiencing pain and others around they

are experiencing anxiety right 171 cents

birth is definitely painful death

definitely painful okay so disease

painful gold is painful so birth death

this is old days you need to pursue them

as painful experiences

so when we remember that definitely

there's a sense of urgency I am a day at

any moment at least parikshit is given

one week notice we don't know how much

notice we have I'm a diet any moment

okay so there is

okay and if you just calculated marriage

calculation is there out of 100 years 50

years will sleep and 10 years we do that

playing this and that hardly this first

time is available just like a student

has to write an exam on Monday today is

Saturday and he collected only 48 hours

left only 45 hours left only 40 hours

left like it has the exam time is just

coming closer there is like a sense of

urgency is increasing in studying right

similarly that can come at any moment

for this

and next life nurtural human life had

any other life okay we should feel like

that but simply will give you human life

only and he will take us back together

that's like hope giving discussion but

in this context

we should understand that life is

temporary the opportunity that we have

given is very valuable that may not

misuse it or under use it that is a

sense of urgency

yeah

thank you

outside the black

more refined sometimes

so yeah I think you were asking me

before also

okay so when outside people who are not

practicing bhakti are exhibiting good

behavior

that could be probably because of their

being in

okay

inspires them to be

good do good be honest we could think be

polite very gentle not hard

okay and they're they're humble they're

modest sometimes while practicing bhakti

also we may read the sastra but we may

not be able to

show all these good qualities of

humility

compassion reject illness politeness Etc

and also we are trying one more aspect

is that your question what part of it

another part is

we are doing so much uh spiritual

practices but that's not being manifest

in our behavior in our dealings in our

character okay

so

in the material world there is

often or always dangerous

when someone is predominantly in

satyagana

he will exhibit good dealings

good behavior good manners

but when the resume becomes prominent or

when he comes in contact with people who

are prominently

one will lose

okay so the good behavior are good

manners exhibited by people who are just

in word of goodness that's not permanent

but devotees all the access movement

they don't have the best behavior they

may not have all great qualities of

gentleness politeness

getting not getting agitated humility

gratitude compassion Etc because they

are practicing bhakti because their

chanting Krishna they are reading

bhagavatam that big devotional practices

sooner or later all these qualities be

manifested

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although we don't have good qualities we

will cultivate the good qualities we

will eventually develop the good

qualities

because we have taken shelter of the

Supreme Lord consciously unconsciously

strongly somehow we are holding on to

that shelter and sooner or later we may

be in one year or two years or ten years

or 20 years a couple of lifetimes you

will develop all the good qualities

right but other on the other hand there

may be people

who are exhibiting so many good

qualities and dealing with them could be

more smoother and much easier than

dealing with devotees sometimes right so

but we need to understand that those

good qualities are on the foundation of

only material mode of goodness and they

don't have the foundation about these

and the foundation is weak all the

building is attractive that will

collapse after some time

but when the foundation is strong all

the currently the building is not very

attractive sooner or later we can make a

very good building right because the

foundation is going to do that so that's

why we may not be we may appreciate the

good qualities of people who may not be

practicing bhakti but uh but we may not

underestimate the potency of devotional

service underestimate the potential of

the yoga just because some bhakti yogis

are not exhibiting such great behavior

and dealings in comparison to people who

are in make sense

ensure that we develop all good

qualities

any other questions

I have two questions the first one is

when you spoke about the right food and

attitude

um

someone like me who has an attention

style of a two-year-old when it comes to

reading books I do tend to pick up quite

a few of them when it comes to

scriptures

how does one navigate through that like

I picked them up but then I have so many

of them that I've read and they are just

like you know I've not gone back to the

first one then I started reading so what

should I what practical tips would you

give to someone who has this habit

you are reading multiple multiple books

and which is what I love really that's

what I've done otherwise but when it

comes to reading books for

entertainments where we is when it comes

to scriptures they are intense they are

heavy so doing that has not served any

problem like I I see I struggle with

going back to the books then to picking

them up again okay okay

so we once you read save algorithm once

you don't feel like coming back to the

driver you already read it once no I

would read it and then I'll pick up an

the one okay and this is because that's

what I used to do before as well I like

reading quite a few books at the same

time

uh I think here one reading of Highway

will take a lot of time isn't it

all right

you know I have some other small books

that I don't get back to reading them

one once I started

foreign

good understanding right you want to go

to another book so like that we have

some Bonafide which is basically you

need to make sure that what we are

reading is one of it okay so you read

some books and you may not feel like

coming back to the books but you want to

read other books also so you complete

everything after that you see whether

you want to come back to it or not so

first read read you write small books

right yes

so once you read all the books then it

will take few years yes okay yes so then

you see whether you watch for picking up

one book and actually kind of breathing

it through and not picking up the other

one so

reading the books how do you go back to

reading them once again having the

eagerness that you spoke it's just not

about reading you once once you've

picked up a book or you have the

eagerness to read those books again

the book will induce that eagerness in

US because of the subject matter

right once you open the book and read it

with the more that we have discussed so

far with devotion with eagerness with

gratitude with service attitude if you

read the book has the potency to attract

our attention again and again it's not

our conscious effort that's what I'm

saying it's not just a product of Swati

our scriptural understanding so our

commitment are our eagerness to read the

same book again is not just our own

internal adjustment

it is the potency of the process itself

it is the process of potential bhakti

itself potency of Krishna itself right

so Krishna will attract us again

and again to that book if you read it in

proper mood right we may not you may try

to put a conscious effort to read it

again but we should also leave rooms

room for Krishna Krishna will inspire

you to pick it up again

that's the main challenge is like you

may feel little sense of accomplishment

uh more in terms of feeling and

encouragement feeling happy for doing it

but not in the mode of being proud or

puffed up but yeah I'm happy I completed

this kind of I completed this book

that's fine being happy is different

from being proud

right yes thank you

Corrections yes you mentioned about the

first point of devotion and intelligence

now many times before even coming to

Krishna we all have been given some

level of intelligence which could be

used or doubted when we come to the part

of birthday either in terms of academic

Indulgence symptoms preaching and

management or people might have been so

there are different levels of

intelligences

but if these intelligence just remain on

that level how do you distinguish

between if that is taking us in the

right path of developing or the whole

purpose is there is to purify the heart

is that happening or does that continue

to rewind for example when preacher may

continue to pray because it's

academically very intelligent he's a

Topper and spiritually it doesn't take

much time to remember all the sastras

and repeat again

um so how do we distinguish the report

continues to do the service in any of

the paths that the purification of the

heart is happening inside how do you

distinguish otherwise you won't get

caught up with that okay how do we

assess whether we are getting purified

or not in a sense that's the question

okay

ask this question basically we need to

have an honest introspection

we need to honestly introspect uh based

on whatever knowledge we have okay

whether I am right track or not

and acknowledge if you are having some

shortcomings let's be honest with

ourselves let's be honest in fact the

deities we may not have we may not be

brutally honest to announce our

shortcomings in WhatsApp communities or

Instagram stories but we can at least be

honest with ourselves

and you have some close friends close

devotees with him you try to share your

heart and get some honest feedback from

their side give them the Liberty to

evaluate and assess you and give some

suggestions so that we improve from

their

self-evaluation and evaluation with the

help of peers and some seniors

that helps make sense

just thank you any other questions

bro if someone says that it's it is

better to be a good person

than to become a bad doctor

I just mentioned it right and

there is bhakta and bad and incompatible

right you can't just have the milkshake

because

they cannot have a beautiful milkshake

right

so you can take cup of milk and then

squeeze a lemon piece and then drink it

so but then the bad doesn't work

doesn't they are not compatible

combinations fact

a devotee

may be having some shortcomings

okay at intention level he or she may

not be pure

at practice level he or she may not be

fully coveted or consistent or regular

so there may be some shortcomings or

inconsistencies or irregularities in

one's practice

absorption of the one may have bad

motives also sometimes okay but that

does not mean that we call them a bad

devotee because

foreign

the foundation of the good qualities

of materialistic people is this

which is subjective to rajivan and

tamagon at any moment

at any moment they may lose I can even

give examples also there are people who

are who are vegetarians

pure goodness as soon as they have heard

the name Edgar whatever beat they have

vomitation vomiting also in the chain

rule okay after a while somehow they got

into some either marriage relationship

or went into colleges or schools and

then they started associating with

certain people there are like stunts

meat eaters and they will write recipe

books

how to make chicken pizza Etc right so

those who had discussed even during the

name are getting devoted to that culture

so they will lose goodness can be lost

at any moment right but bhakti

when

and deviates from bhakti whatever little

bhakti he has done or she has done is

never lost it will come to rescue that

person you in the next step hours

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you know if someone is trying to

hang out with non-devotearies a lot like

a lot

is not to like you know the intention is

to create a better experience of your

devotee like you know to tell the neck

you know David this is how many routine

is how do we make sure that we don't

become the knowledge all the devotees

are not important is about following do

that

the intention is just to inspire quote

unquote non-devity devotional service

the Temptation is good but if we are

getting affected by their Association

we need to understand whether we are

giving Association or taking cases

whether we are influencing them are

being influenced by them ready to

understand then we draw the line right

that Shiva is surrounded by ghosts and

half goblets all the way but secondly

associated with them to purify them okay

so if you are not on the level of Shiva

better better

we have to

right so much is too much that Newton

has to evaluate property to the Western

countries

and

and he gave his Association to them and

transformed them he did not get affected

by their Association

right so a kabaddi player is there who

is strong enough he will go on the other

side and bring some people on this side

place here

thank you thank you

and of course

it is

how to assess the level of surrender how

much one is surrendered to Krishna the

level of surrender because you can

understand you can say it better

but still because it has but I'll try to

say

one can assess the development surrender

by uh by honestly

identifying how much are we anchoring

per credit for our activities

there are many parameters for assessment

okay but one parameter is am I still

having the sense of doership

when their sense of dealership that will

naturally lead to sense of enjoyership

when you think I am the Doer

the resultant

mentality of the thinking is

controller

so when we are actually surrendered and

we are trying to surrender our sense of

doership our hankering her credit name

Fame credit and our sense of enjoyership

will be diminished gradually so that's

like one parameter to test right now

these are like products of

the three gateways to help that krsna

says right

[Laughter]

Okay so

all these are actually ways of assessing

our surrender there are so many

parameters but I just said a couple of

them

any other questions

how much time should we take care today

please

thank you for being here and presenting

uh I've got two questions one is

regarding the application uh you

mentioned that so while reading there

will be many points and uh

to be applied and even with the sense of

urgency I may not be able to apply all

those points in one go so how to take

this

right we will discuss more of it in the

method of study in the afternoon today

is more like preparing Consciousness

this morning session after on session

will be more like

actually knowing how to study method of

study they will discuss more but now

that he asks uh application of

everything that we learn may not

immediately possible

just like in a seventh standard

classroom

May learn so many formulas in

mathematics

right but in the exam you may not be

able to apply all the formulas and in

real life hardly anyone okay but

knowledge is accumulated right so

similarly We Gather a lot of files of

lessons wisdom from the assassini study

we store them right in our heart and in

our mind wherever okay when the right

situation comes we should be able to

respond appropriately towards the

situation at the spur of the moment

so that will happen when we equip

ourselves with the right wisdom

right so and of course sajana and all

that so

um

all over sadhana all our sastra study

all the knowledge that we have gathered

should equip ourselves with the ability

to respond appropriately on the spur of

the movement immediately we should be

able to show right response at the right

time it's like somebody is taken for an

interview

some questions

and they could not answer 15 minutes

passed and he came out of the entry

oh I know this answer go back and give

this answer it doesn't work right so

that 15 minutes is the only time or 10

minutes

only time where you have to respond

so we keep on reading chastra studying

shastra we keep on Gathering a lot of

wisdom right through the characters and

heart is getting transformed then when

the right situation comes

naturally we will be able to access that

file that we have stored in our memory

in our heart and access it and apply it

at the right moment at the spur of the

moment so that will happen when we have

some purity of uh

of approaching disaster does it make

sense yes right we may not immediately

be able to apply everything that we have

learned so life will present

circumstances to the degree we appear so

that degree we respond appropriately at

that moment

where there is no preparation time given

to us what about Mercy from Krishna yes

of course

and the second question is a personal

question but I felt like asking

so how do you feel living in the ocean I

mean especially seeing your excitation

of the verses consider that every moment

is your festival for you so how can I

achieve the same

the same

yeah they just pre-read study here

associate with devotees okay whatever we

have discussed the 10 aspects of the

board of a sincere student descriptions

try to maintain that quote then we can

find algorithm ever fresh

Evergreen okay always giving always

equipping ourselves with the right

perspectives nourishment

so we will be able to perceive and we

have the right word

right

right whatever little understanding that

I have whatever

I am or I have today in my spiritual

life is only because of algorithm

that's our life and so on

Buddy says

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live with them so it will happen very

regularly interacting and also aspected

for that

thank you

thank you for the lovely class

so this in terms of setting the right

mood to any lesson any speaker

where we come across so many different

speakers at the bhagavatam classes and

not every time I might not I might be

able to set the mood and it also depends

on the speaker I know it shouldn't but

it does happen really so often

so how do we

like how do we get into that

mode where we are able to be aware

driven but other than just sitting

through the class or because I have to

sit slowly I'm going to do it

uh as a part of sadhana

let me sit through

the classes second warning program at

all

ideally we should have that mode of

absorption

but there is nothing wrong in having

one's own favorite sections of

bhagavatam

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because we had more into personalism not

in personalism we don't we can't be

mechanical they have emotions they have

tastes they have inclinations nothing

wrong in having some favorite speakers

or favorite dishes her favorite

darshans and favorite deities Etc it's a

favorite kantos of bhagavatam's favorite

chapters favorite pastimes of algorithm

right nothing wrong in that but we don't

disrespect anyone else right am I like

krishna's

but that is

I will have great respect and I'm a big

fan of soil so speaker of bhagavatam

that does not mean I disrespect other

speakers they are also sincerely trying

to

glorify Krishna right so you can we can

have

uh our own liking towards something but

we have a respect for everything else

that is modified

sheet everyone else and everything else

that is in line with the paramukara in

line with the teachings of acharyas

so it doesn't make sense

that is that's that's what I'm asking

but to have the drive to listen

is not necessary also

like you may not show similar enthusiasm

to

eat everything in the plate

okay so everything is

right but you have a favorite item okay

you like something like South Indian has

sunlight Continental some like raw some

like cooked okay some like steamed

so everything is

right so you can have your liking not a

problem but you honor you respect like

respectfully say hey is not appropriate

they have tasted and I have this with

this as simple as that makes sense

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that's not possible

okay anything else is good

thank you for setting the right mood in

what mood we should study the scripture

systems of a motionless fire 4. and

setting the purpose to provide us

motivation for studying scriptures but

what if

the different level of inclinations

towards daily scriptures and people

telling different natures

it's very important to understand it's

very important for our own good to study

scriptures

but we're also carrying different

explanations towards cities so

trying to get a handle on how can I

become more sincere in reading

scriptures if I'm not naturally inclined

as I do study but at the same time I

want to be better

but there's different miracle in not

that strong nature that that kind of

taste for reading scriptures can you say

something about it how can we how can I

improve myself we said in the beginning

right

spiritual culture is important there are

five important Loops of bhakti

and different devotees may find

themselves naturally getting attracted

to and getting absorbed in a

particularly more than other limbs

nothing

somebody whenever they get time they

pick up the high government instead

there are some devotees whenever they

pick up time whenever they have time

they take a feedback and stand extra

routes 16 ounces

right that day quota of reading the one

hour is over but still they want to read

more so different devotees have

different inclinations to get absorbed

in Krishna through different links

there's nothing wrong in it right so we

can follow our test but we should have

some basic

understanding of sastra okay at least

one reading of bhagavatam at least one

reading of bhagavad-gita okay and then

you can constantly

recommend it here from devotees who are

presenting chastra that may be also okay

right so but we may get observing one

limb more than others also there's any

kind of bhaktios

capacity and our inclinations and

acknowledges because we are a

personalists not impersonalists right so

there is no foreign

but other things we have within this

rigid practice of regulated principles

there is a lot of Liberty given to us to

choose

how you want to get connected to Krishna

in what

ways are important but some like

saravana more some like kirtana more so

that's why we have examples of devotees

also okay

make sense

but if you want to specifically your

aspiring to get absorbed in sastra the

best way is to have combined studies

with other devotees

you sit with other devotees study

bhagavatam together there are so many

reading forms okay you want to but

it's not natural for you so it is

someone else who is finding it more

natural

so together in in kalyuga Sangha gives

lot of strength

right Association is not of strength so

study with them if you can't study alone

it will become easy

thank you thank you

what was the most striking aspect was at

the beginning of the class which said

spiritual culture has to be set before

even we to set the mood

this is just my limited understanding

save us Sangha sadhana

uh

we agree but what is that aspect of

sadata one has to inculcate because I

coming from a traditional family South

India we have a lot of achara all of

that does that all matter or is it

sadachar something separate we also know

we have courses in we are here

do you mean by sadachar that contributes

us to have a spiritual culture yes

perspective

not all the traditional rituals

or rules and regulations and protocols

that we have with followings in sales

it's mainly

means interactions with other devotees

our Behavior our dealings with other

devotees

basically it's the mood

of gratitude compassion tolerance

patience humility

this this more this vegetable qualities

should reflect in our Behavior

but not the rituals that we perform I'm

not speaking about that so the mood the

mood in which we are attracting with

other devotees

the the attitude will manifest in

Behavior

right and that becomes character happy

today we see every attitude different

behaviors if a character our character

is the attitude that is being manifest

in the behavior when within the attitude

when we have gratitude then we say thank

you external within the attitude when

there is a compassion then we become

kind another blue yeah it has happened

to you okay you just become concerned

about other person so when we have that

attitude and that attitude rational

attitude that is being reflected in our

behavior that is

foreign

ties in action that is

let us not the rituals but

makes sense

and

just sitting on top of it how do we

cultivate those is also a challenge

because

it cannot happen in this still one

candidization cultivating humidity

cultivating compassion that's we will

think we would like to discuss are you

saying the other four contributes to

sadata they're all intertwined yes of

course there's an overlap also

foreign

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this is just preparing food intertex

basic starter okay any other question

okay we'll continue here thank you very

much

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